Over the past few weeks, students in Year 4 have been putting in time and effort to work on their speeches to be a Class Captain. Students have been eagerly awaiting the results and we are proud to announce the Term 2 Class Captains for Year 4 as follows:4AK– Eliz Atik & Gimash Mudalpath

Science in term 2 will once again focus on Biological Science which is the study of living things. Students in Years 3/4 will explore living and nonliving things and the life cycles of plants and animals. There is also an environmental focus investigation on how to improve biodiversity within our school grounds.

Irem and Dilara (4WM) investigating living and nonliving specimens.

Mia and Caroline (4WM) sketching a scientific diagram of a Spiny Leaf Insect

Madison (4WM) completing her scientific diagram

Students in Years 5/6 will complete a Mission to Mars which will focus on adaptations and survival of living things. They will explore and investigate the possibility of colonising Mars in the future. The students will travel to Mars after making a soda straw rocket, build a lander and explore the landscape of Mars using Ozobots.

This week the students furthered their knowledge of the importance of ANZAC day. In the classroom we had conversations on why we commemorate the soldiers and the people that were affected by the war. We learnt about the history and the journey the ANZAC’s had over 100 years ago. We explored care packages, stories and made our very own ANZAC biscuits!

On Friday 3rd of May, fifty-six of Greenvale Primary Schools finest runners attended the District Cross Country at Brimbank Park.

In gorgeous, sunny conditions our team battled against other local schools across 2000 and 3000m events.

Top 30 place getters in each race won points for their school, top ten places getters in each race won a spot into the Divisional Cross Country later in the term and the top three place getters in each event were awarded a medal.

The team from Greenvale Primary School represented us with great sportsmanship, athleticism and endurance with many students advancing to the next level of Cross Country and many more winning points for our school.

Some of the outstanding performances were:
10 Year Old Boys: 1st Jake
10 Year Old Boys: 3rd Osman
10 Year Old Girls: 1st Victoria
10 Year Old Girls: 3rd Nethasha
11 Year Old Boys: 1st Omer
11 Year Old Boys: 2nd Ridha
12 Year Old Boys: 1st Matthew
12 Year Old Boys: 3rd Xavier
12 Year Old Girls: 2nd Asli

In the overall standing of schools, Greenvale Primary School placed first as the Champion School for 2019 on a total of 1542 points; retaining the shield for